In her final blog for CQC Debbie Ivanova, Director for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People, reflects on health care for autistic people and people with a learning disability, and updates on the new ‘How you see me matters’ report. This week is World Autism Acceptance week, but…

Victoria Vallance, Director of Secondary and Specialist Care, provides an update on CQC’s ongoing national maternity inspection programme and offers early insight into the emerging themes, including good practice examples to support wider learning across all trusts. I’d like to start this blog by thanking the maternity workforce for their…

Mary Cridge, Director of Adult Social Care and Mandy Williams, interim Director of Integration, Inequalities and Improvement at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) update on the work we have been doing to develop our approach to local authority and integrated care system assessments As we approach the end of the…

Debbie Ivanova, Director for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People updates on the work of the Supported Living Improvement Coalition We launched the Supported Living Improvement Coalition in February 2022. It is an action group which brings together people with experience of supported living services, their relatives and…

Ian Trenholm, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission discusses some of the key messages from our recent State of Care report. We recently published State of Care 2021/22. This report is our annual assessment of health and social care in England. It presents the insights, trends and themes from…

In our latest blog, we introduce our Regulatory Leadership team and explore what motivates them. Our Regulatory Leadership team comprises our Chief Inspectors and professional heads of the different sectors within health and social care. The team is key to delivering the ambitions we set out in our strategy. We’ve…

In my last blog in June, I spoke about putting people at the centre of system regulation. In this blog, I want to explain how we are continuing to improve how we put people and communities at the heart of all our work. Our ‘strategy for the changing world of…

Our ‘new strategy for the changing world of health and social care’ made ambitious commitments to change how we work. As well as our drive to promote safety and improvement, we also committed to delivering smarter regulation of health and adult social care driven by people’s needs and experiences. …

In this blog Debbie Ivanova, Director for people with a learning disability and autistic people, and Jemima Burnage, Interim Director of Mental Health, discuss the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act and how vital it is to the rest of the act’s provisions. — It has been nearly six months since the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act came into force, and 12 years since the tragic events that were the catalyst for the legislation.